Example sentences for: backwards

How can you use “backwards” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I'd open the door to grab a cold drink and be driven backwards by the odor; a minute later, whoever was on the third floor would shout in panicky tones, "Shut the fridge!

  • • English names written in katakana: The Dark Ducks, J-League Downtown (J-League is a soccer league), Physical, Cruising, Omnibus, Original Love, The Peanuts (twin sisters), Southern All-Stars, The Tempters, Tokyo Performance Doll (seven girls), Tulip, Tunnels (pronounced toenails), Zutorobi (The Beatles pronounced backwards, syllabically rather than alphabetically!

  • In Mr. William Brashear's Hocus Pocus [XIX, 1, 1], the nonsensical magical words from Goethe's Reineke Fuchs, nekrast negibaul geid sum manteflih dnudna mein tedachs make sense when the words are read backwards (with some anagrammatical liberties):

  • In fact, I think the conservative case for presidential stupidity has it exactly backwards.

  • And now he must crab backwards round this track .


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